Vermont Street is a north-south street located in the Potrero Hill district of San Francisco

San Francisco, California

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, California

California

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. It begins at Division Street near the South of Market area, and runs south, paralleling the U.S. Route 101 freeway. The street ends when it meets 22nd Street.

A section of the street between 20th and 22nd Street

22nd Street (San Francisco)

22nd Street in San Francisco, California is one of the steepest streets in the world. In the block from Vicksburg to Church Streets in the Noe Valley neighborhood it descends 79 feet along the south side for an average grade of just over 31%, about the same as the steepest block of Filbert Street...

, near McKinley Square, features a series of seven sharp turns. This has led the street to be dubbed the crookedest in the world in competition with the better-known Lombard Street (Vermont, while steeper than Lombard, has fewer turns). In an episode of Fact or Fiction on the Travel Channel

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, Jayms Ramirez measured the sinuosity

Sinuosity

Sinuosity or sinuosity index is a measure of deviation of a path between two points from the shortest possible path...

 of both Lombard and Vermont streets, and proved that Vermont is indeed more crooked (with a sinuosity of 1.56 versus 1.2 for Lombard Street).

Unlike Lombard's red brick construction, Vermont is made of concrete.

Vermont Street is featured in a chase scene in the Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...

 movie Magnum Force

Magnum Force

Magnum Force is a 1973 American police thriller film and the second to feature Clint Eastwood as maverick cop Harry Callahan after the 1971 film Dirty Harry. Ted Post, who also directed Eastwood in TV's Rawhide and the feature film Hang 'Em High, directed the second film in the Dirty Harry series...

(1973) and is now home to the annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel race.

External links

• Tour For San Francisco Virgins - Sfgate.com
  San Francisco Chronicle
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• San Francisco: 10 Free Things - Fodor's
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